Big win for Bluesky, Firefox is no longer posting on X @firefox.com 2.4M followers on X



The strength of life to face oneself has been made manifest. The persona Carighan has appeared.

This is what people don't get.
This is just double-win: He gets to once again shit on anybody even marginally less fascist that him (so, well, everybody) for the right-wing mass media, while simultaneously withdrawing from the public eye to have less people look at how he's draining money from the US gov.

Dude could be destitute in a barrel and IMO needs to lose far far more. He deserves every little shit thing that happens to him, and is one of the few people on the planet where if they have a serious roadside accident I might just suddenly remember I panic from seeing blood and hence could not stop to help them and and in my panic did not have enough clear thought to call an ambulance. And I'd do that for murderers. But not for Musk. He's the scum that cannot die soon enough, and cannot die painfully enough.

Yeah. We can assume he gave himself an insane amount of extra cash through his access (like the surprising-wink-wink gov contracts his companies have now), but we don't know truly know how much and he'd be stupid to let anybody know.
He has to get the fuck out now though because obviously him gaining a few more billions cost the american state + public hundreds of billions in long-term damage, if not trillions. It also made swaths of the american government dysfunctional, things like veteran aid etc.

I mean if never want one, but in an engineering level this site looks fascinating.

Go into politics.

Can confirm, ran the numbers and in just over 3 years Atlanta turned every american gay. That's why for such a long time now, every american is gay, always. It's those body scanner!

Aww, I was so hoping I'd get another assistant like thing, Google definitely needs more of those.

Why would it? It sees a road in front of itself, the whole car is built + programmed to go by what it sees, as an image.
The car is doing exactly what it is built to do. It just so happens that "safety of road traffic" is not among the things it is built for, and explicitly so.

Of course, if the styrofoam was even mildly damp, the Tesla will be rusting now. 😅

Well the set up is "Some rich fucker was idiot enough to dictate his company should not install LIDAR, no matter how strictly superior it'd be to do so".
So I dunno. We could ask Melon Husk why he set that up, but I doubt he'll reply. All Mark Robers did is observe the effect of the setup of Edolf Muskler. You're right of course in so far that there's not much to the video then, and I faintly remember there was a case a lot of years ago where a Tesla drove into a sky-blue truck because coming up on a crest it expected to only see hill, which matched the color of said truck.

I suspect with how litigious Musk has become, the small man he is, they didn't want to do something that could be constructed as trying to make people move away, actively?

Jesus fucking hell. You really can only partially fault Melon Husk or Trumpeteer for this shit, I mean people seem to actively want to get exploited, hard.

Firefox stops posting on fElon's social media! 🥳
Link is to the Bluesky account that tracks companies moving to Bluesky (in particular, but it is in this case so I felt it's a fitting link).
They in turn link to the Firefox Bluesky profile.

It's like always with these right-wingers: The louder they yell, the more you know they're guilty. In particular any time one of them cries "Protect the children", you should just cut their dick off right then and there.
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Other way around. Open Library is part of the internet archive. Given it's also vastly superior in quality and has tools to maintain and administrate the data, I very much prefer it over alternative offerings. If Bookwyrm at least had a curation/maintainence team or support group or something, and not everyone could just nilly-willy add duplicates of existing entries, then I could see more use for it.
But like others have said, it's also a bit of a different use case. If you want to pull data, definitely do it from OL. They're the same source Bookwyrm uses for its main data import, after all.
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Considering who is behind it, I just use Open Library. In particular because like you say, their actual data is much more useful.

A vulnerability analyst and prominent member of the infosec industry has blasted Microsoft for refusing to look at
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Absolutely SLAMMED! 😂

I mean there's a solid chance not a single coder now is the same as back when it was removed? It's been quite a while. 😅

Yeah when they removed it there was virtually no comment on it. At the time everybody understood PWAs were just... you might as well use a new window and press F11. It's just window dressing.
I mean I get it, there's some marginal use cases. Sure. And it's nice they're back!

No that's just a typo, it's a big ass-fuck SUV actually.


'Unity must do better in how they treat their workers in hard times.'

Here's a summary of my take on this situation: 🤬

Citizen Sleeper 2 review thread (85 average, 97% recommended)
Game Information
Game Title: Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Platforms:
- PlayStation 5 (Jan 31, 2025)
- Nintendo Switch (Jan 31, 2025)
- Xbox Series X/S (Jan 31, 2025)
- PC (Jan 31, 2025)
Trailer:
Developer: Jump Over The Age
Publisher: Fellow Traveller
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 85 average - 97% recommended - 37 reviews
Critic Reviews
But Why Tho? - Eddie De Santiago - 9 / 10
Checkpoint Gaming - Percy Ranson - [8 / 10](https://check


How a Steam profile can help you grieve a loved one.

Reminds me of seeing how long it has been (a bit over 4 years) since a good friend of mine was last online in Steam. Died suddenly before christmas. RIP. :'(


On 26th July 2024, performers from the US actors union SAG-AFTRA began a strike after failing to reach a deal with majo…


In 2016, an EgyptAir A320 spiraled into the Mediterranean, killing 66 people. Was it an act of sabotage, or something even scarier?

From Admiral Cloudberg's air crash series, of course.
On the 19th of May 2016, an Airbus A320 en route from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar at cruising altitude over the Mediterranean Sea, spiraling to its doom from 37,000 feet until it was dashed against the night-black water. What caused the loss of the EgyptAir flight and its 66 occupants should have been uncovered by a straightforward inquiry, but instead, the case quickly evolved into one of the more unnerving and unnecessary mysteries of 21st century aviation. The problem wasn’t that investigators couldn’t find the cause — it was that not all of them seemingly wanted to.

Does the NVIDIA App cripple your PC gaming performance? (Answer: no it does not)
So, can you really get over 20FPS by simply uninstalling the NVIDIA App from your PC? Let's find out, shall we?
As we can see, there is a small performance hit with NVIDIA App. However, it’s nowhere close to what has been reported. On our PC system, it’s around 4-6%. And that’s mostly in CPU-bound areas. For instance, in Indiana Jones which is a GPU-bound game with Path Tracing, there isn’t any performance hit at all.
Ridiculous that this was even a discussion.

This is my aged void, Pepper


But don't let her hear I said that, she's 12 and obviously the youngest kitten possible! (she's not tiny, the bed is just oversized)


Dragon Age: The Veilguard foolishly inserts modern politics into a game that could have addressed these issues within the framework of the game's lore.

Not sure how particulary I think about it.
I kinda agree though because, honestly, I genuinely like prodding at RL-issues in my video games, but if the best the writers can do is some MCU-level shit that I would expect in Forspoken or Fortnite, then I really wish they'd not. It just feels like making fun of transgender people with how terrible the scene's dialogue is (there's a video in the article).
Plus, as the update says, they couldn't even be arsed to search through the previous games for whether this was already talked about.
Sigh.
Still, the game is far better than I expected it to be, so this isn't just a rant, but I wish the dialogue in particular had decent writing behind it, it breaks immersion near-constantly even if the general scene and story were done well.

OpenCritic now has user-reviews including pros&cons and shows user score

The top critics in gaming. All in one place. OpenCritic is a review aggregator for video games, collecting reviews from the top publications in gaming such as IGN, GameSpot, Polygon, and Eurogamer.


Life is Strange: Double Exposure - TGS2024 Trailer
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Slowly getting really excited for this. Between the demo and now the scenes showing here, I'm starting to really dig the new visuals, and the voice work in the playable part was fantastic.
More Max! 🏳️🌈

Shadows of Doubt Review Thread
Game Information
Game Title: Shadows of Doubt
Platforms:
- PC (Apr 24, 2023)
Trailers:
Developer: ColePowered Games
Publisher: Fireshine Games
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 71 average - 67% recommended - 10 reviews
Critic Reviews
CGMagazine - Justin Wood - 4 / 10
Shadows of Doubt as an idea is incredible; even the PC version of the game is fantastic; the console version, however, is riddled with issues that make it almost unplayable in its current state.
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It has been announced that Ubisoft's Executive Committee and Board of Directors will launch an investigation and review of the company.

This is going to be one of those "Ubisoft investigates Ubisoft and found that Ubisoft did nothing wrong at Ubisoft"-situations, isn't it?

Stack Overflow Survey: 80% of developers are unhappy
In May 2024, over 65,000 developers responded to our annual survey about coding, the technologies and tools they use and want to learn, AI, and developer experience at work. Check out the results and see what's new for Stack Overflow users.
The really interesting part is IMO this one:



This charming adventure could afford to take a few steps back

I personally always dislike it, too.
There are two reasons you might want to do this as a dev, of course. One of them I feel kinda half-asses your design, if you don't want to get a threat or failure during gameplay to get into the way of your storypacing, just make a visual novel. Or at least something like SOMA, Amnesia or Still Wakes The Deep.
Or alternatively, if you want to make a game explicitly made for children that's okay, but then also do the marketing a bit more kid-centric IMO. I dunno, maybe this one is actually genuinely meant for children, but some of the humor and writing doesn't feel that way if I'm honest. Princess Peach does this more thoroughly: It is the same "handholding 100% of the time", but it's also very obviously meant to be played primarily by relatively small children!

Pacific Drive | Drive Your Way Fall 2024 Update

New presets, over 50 new settings, and further customizations!

Text copied and pasted from the linked Steam update (there's also a video showcasing things):
Brand New Gameplay Presets
You wanted a challenge, more variety, and more control over... everything! So we've given it to you. Starting today you can modify your trips in the Zone with 7 new presets:
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Pacific Drive The standard Pacific Drive experience - a Pacific Drive through the Olympic Peninsula. Scenic Tour Crafting requirements, resource consumption, driving difficulty, hazards, dangers, storms, and damage are all lowered or disabled. The player cannot die. A scenic route through the story of Pacific Drive. Joyride The same gameplay and tension as Pacific Drive, but gathering, crafting, and research requirements are all lowered. Damage and failure penalties are minimal. A Sunday Drive Focus on the Olympic Peninsula with minimal interruptions Nuclear Journey Every map will be filled with low dose radiation that is harmful to the player.

The new Flappy Bird game has a hidden secret: crypto

The new Flappy Bird game might have a very direct relationship to something unexpected. Cryptocurrency.

This emoji summarizes it perfectly: 🤢

Firefox 130 added borders around buttons in high-contrast themes (finally). Should you not want them, here's how to disable them...
RESOLVED (mstriemer) in Firefox - Theme. Last updated 2024-07-22.
I am quite happy they added the borders, but I know some people use high-contrast themes as a base for their own theming and don't want this, in this case, add this to your userChrome.css
:
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:root { --toolbarbutton-outline: none !important; }

Dragon Age Veilguard: Game Director talks about the NPCs and their designs

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Policy: Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is banned (on Stack Overflow)

Moderator Note: This post has been locked to prevent comments because people have been using them for protracted debate and discussion (we've deleted over 300 comments on this post alone, not even

Obviously, given the subject matter, I had to let ChatGPT generate a summary for this:
The Meta Stack Overflow post discusses a policy decision regarding the use of generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, on the platform. The key points include:
- Ban on Generative AI: The community has decided to prohibit the use of generative AI for answering questions on Stack Overflow. This is due to concerns about the quality and reliability of AI-generated content.
- Quality Control: The decision aims to maintain high standards for answers, as AI-generated responses may lack accuracy and context, potentially leading to misinformation.
- Community Feedback: The policy was influenced by feedback from the community, emphasizing the importance of human expertise in providing reliable answers.
- Future Considerations: The post suggests that while the current stance is a ban, the situation may be revisited in the future as the technology evolves.
Overall, the policy